How to Use Affirmative Prayer (Part III) - Your Personal Power

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Using Your Personal Power

“Before a diamond shows its brilliance and prismatic colors, it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing.” Anonymous

What exactly is positive thinking? Is it pie in the sky, airy fairy double think? Hardly. Positive thinking is more the result of understanding and practicing the following suggestions:

•    Accept responsibility for your actions and reactions. Life will always throw challenges your way; how you handle them determines the result of their presence in your life. “When you do not listen to your conscience it’s because you do not want advice from a stranger.” Anonymous

•    Expect the best outcome for all concerned. You're not the only one involved in the answers to your requests. “What worries you, masters you.” H.W. Robinson

•    Remain flexible. You may not always know the consequences of getting your prayers answered. Even the best candy can rot your teeth. Allow the universe to bring the right circumstances. Say “This, or something better…”

Challenge: Consciously change something in your life every day. This begins the rather uncomfortable process of habit rearrangement and reconstruction. It’s not easy but in the process comes manifestation. 

Positive thinking, then, is a result of good practice. You can act your way into a new way thinking much more easily than trying to think your way into a new way of acting. Move. Take action. Start now. And watch your mind change for the better!

“Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities—always.” Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

How to Use Affirmative Prayer (Part II) - The Three Clarities

Wake up call!!

Seeing through the Dust 

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.” William James

You are aware of less than four percent of the visible universe, let alone the invisible. So, you create stories in order to make sense of things. Your prayers are answered, the outcome manifested, according to how you recreate your stories—your beliefs—and how you clear the dust from your inner lenses. Here’s how:

• Identify your aim. Be clear. What are you seeking, really? And are you willing to pay the price? This is the First Clarity. 

• Place your attention (focus) on the solution. Take your mind off the problem. Be aware of the blockages; don’t give them power. And this is the Second Clarity.

• Allow the answer to show itself. Be willing to act on the opportunities that will invariably come your way when you are focused. Third clarity.

Are you open to receiving what you ask for? Are you sure?

Get clear. Manifestation is guaranteed!

“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way; if you don’t, you’ll find an excuse…” George C. Fraser  (African-American success teacher)

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How to Use Affirmative Prayer (Part I) - Shattering the Myths

The Three Toxic Myths

“There is a natural law of abundance which pervades the universe, but it will not flow through a doorway of belief in lack and limitation.” Paul Zaiter

I begin a series of short lessons that you may enjoy. If they help, then I've done my part. Use them as you will.

You have an inner belief boundary that defines who you are, what’s possible for you, and what you deserve to enjoy. This boundary is based in past perceptions and not on fact or truth. You live out these beliefs without questioning their validity. You have a strong need to cling to these beliefs and have difficulty releasing them. Your circumstances won’t significantly change until you release the need to cling to those beliefs and consciously create new pathways, new goals, new thoughts. (Paraprased from The Inner Game of Selling by Ron Willingham © 2006)

Myth #1: There’s not enough: there’s not enough money, food, water, air, time, love, etc.
Truth: Sufficiency is not an amount, it’s an experience. Key: Willingness to trust.

Myth #2: More is better--a chase with no end and a race without winners.
Truth: Sufficiency resides inside each of us and we can call it forward. Key: Clarity of purpose.

Myth #3: That’s just the way it is and there’s no way out. The path of resignation. Poor me, poor us. This one holds the strongest grip. Truth: Sufficiency is a consciousness, an attention, an intentional choosing of the way we think about our circumstances. Key: Openness of mind and heart. 

“When you let go of trying to get MORE of what you don’t really need, it frees up oceans of energy to make a difference with what you have. When you make a difference with what you have, it expands.” Lynn Twist ‘The Soul of Money’

Get Ready For A Surprise: What The Bible Says About Marriage

"Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed." Mark Twain

You've heard it on TV, talk radio, and the Internet; you've even read it in the papers. The Conservative Right and fundamentalist religion in America have made it clear that there should be a Biblical standard for marriage, that is, the joining in holy and legal matrimony of one man and one woman. And since Pres. Obama has recently taken the side of marriage equality i.e. gay marriage, the Right is even more determined to nail it all down to their liking. 

Fine. Then let's see what the Bible has to say about it.

The following is from a U-U (Unitarian-Universalist) minister in Massachusetts:

IN DEFENSE OF BIBLICAL MARRIAGE

(2005) The Presidential Prayer Team is currently urging us to "Pray for the President (George W. Bush) as he seeks wisdom on how to legally codify the definition of marriage. Pray that it will be according to Biblical principles. With many forces insisting on variant definitions of marriage, pray that God's Word and His standards will be honored by our government."

Any good religious person believes prayer should be balanced by action. So here, in support of the Prayer Team's admirable goals, is a proposed Constitutional Amendment codifying marriage entirely on Biblical principles:

Service: The Heart of Christianity, The Heart of Faith Itself...

It's simple, it's clear, it's spot on...   

Matthew 22:36-40

 "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

Love is not simply a feeling; it's action. 

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